I played two 2HG events today with my brother. We did better than we expected considering we hadn't played in years. Neither of our event pools had the crazy bombs so we had to work to figure out our decks each time.
1st event: 2-1
I played RB and my brother played GW. My mana curve was crazy low but it had our best rares. No Rakdos but I did get Jasper Flint and Akul. His GW deck was largely mount focused. Nothing crazy in it, but it played super well and kept big bodies on the field. We crushed game 1 since our opponent had shit luck on draws. We were ground out in game 2 thanks to a Lost Jitte on a Raven of Fell Omens. In hindsight, I should have killed that damn bird right away. Game 3 was a tight back and forth and went to turns. We were able to overpower them at the last minute to secure the win.
2nd event: 1-1-1
Our pool here was a huge struggle. I did pull Lost Jitte but had very little to combo it with. I played UB and my brother played GW with a U splash. Our GW pulls almost mirrored our first event so we went with what worked. I had shit for everything else so just went with UB since time was ticking. We won match 1 due to a similar case of opponents' shit luck. We came so close to winning match 2 but tied due to turns. We were up 38-10 and could kill in 1 or 2 turns. Sucks but those are the rules. We got our asses kicked in match 3 largely thanks a RG deck that overpowered us. I will say Fblthp was my secret MVP this event and only the third match rightfully knew it had to die immediately.
Lesson of the day: If you don't pull bombs, make sure you can kill theirs.
1st event: 2-1
I played RB and my brother played GW. My mana curve was crazy low but it had our best rares. No Rakdos but I did get Jasper Flint and Akul. His GW deck was largely mount focused. Nothing crazy in it, but it played super well and kept big bodies on the field. We crushed game 1 since our opponent had shit luck on draws. We were ground out in game 2 thanks to a Lost Jitte on a Raven of Fell Omens. In hindsight, I should have killed that damn bird right away. Game 3 was a tight back and forth and went to turns. We were able to overpower them at the last minute to secure the win.
2nd event: 1-1-1
Our pool here was a huge struggle. I did pull Lost Jitte but had very little to combo it with. I played UB and my brother played GW with a U splash. Our GW pulls almost mirrored our first event so we went with what worked. I had shit for everything else so just went with UB since time was ticking. We won match 1 due to a similar case of opponents' shit luck. We came so close to winning match 2 but tied due to turns. We were up 38-10 and could kill in 1 or 2 turns. Sucks but those are the rules. We got our asses kicked in match 3 largely thanks a RG deck that overpowered us. I will say Fblthp was my secret MVP this event and only the third match rightfully knew it had to die immediately.
Lesson of the day: If you don't pull bombs, make sure you can kill theirs.
